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Claude Code VS Code extension with backdoor released on Cursor marketplace
Yesterday, Anthropic were compromised and used to stage a global supply chain attack.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,203 posts.
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It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
My nephew just graduated high school, and wants a laptop. When he decides what computer to buy, price (or more precisely, value) is the most important attribute. Apple's MacBook Neo upended the 'value laptop' equation—Apple's not supposed to be both the cheapest option and the best value... but it seems like that's…
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Addiction Markets
Corporate gambling is economic coercion, a way to shift tax burdens away from the wealthy to the poor. It's been here since the 1970s, and now it's corrupting sports and young men. Abolish it.
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My Time Working at Stripe
Jon's personal site.
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2025 Letter
Corgis, compute, Cold War; Ecclesiastes; ties; Stendhal; humor; Pascal's Wager; deep infrastructure; Germanic obedience; Texas State Fair
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Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
I'm creating a simple developer utility to make managing Claude Code profiles (e.g. running it with DeepSeek, or some OpenRouter models) a little bit easier.
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A Primer on Bézier Curves
A detailed explanation of Bézier curves, and how to do the many things that we commonly want to do with them.
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I walked across Luxembourg
A hike from the west to the east of the Grand Duchy
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Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back again
The internet is getting noisy. Too noisy. Having grown up in the nineties, with 56k dial-up, I sometimes struggle to understand how little I'm accomplishing today with all the bandwidth I can leverage. There were some key factors that made the old internet so productive, by the way,
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Free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch
RAWRLAB Games, as an official middleware Nintendo developer, provides an unofficial Godot port for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 development at no cost to approved Nintendo developers that qualify as "Godot Ecosystem Contributors" according to the terms mentioned in this announcement . This port is intended…
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Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel
What if you could host a web service with no ports exposed? With Cloudflare Tunnel, you can!
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Moving money internationally
SWIFT operates a messaging protocol which ties banks together with correspondent banks. This collaboration enables most international wires.
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Learning to code vs. learning to automate
Does anyone remember a few years ago, when the mayor of New York decided to learn to program? It was a heady time, because it wasn’t just him. I remember these surreal commercials where Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh was encouraging children to learn to code for the good of humanity or something. There was...
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Golden Rules for Making Money (1880)
ART OF MONEY GETTING
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FireDucks: Pandas but Faster
Introduction My main background is a hedge fund professional, so I deal with finance data all the time and so far the Pandas library has been an indispensab...
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My blog is now generated by Google Docs
Welcome to my new blog! This is going to be a bit of an experiment for me. I have wanted to set up a blog for quite some time now but I never wanted to host my blog on some other website like medium (call it a vanity thing but I like seeing my name in that URL). I also didn’t really want to set up something like…
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Privacy Is Just the First Step, the Goal Is Data Ownership
Privacy for privacy sake is a weak argument, and privacy advocates should abandon it.
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Don't use Linksys routers
Back in 2012 I gave a talk at a conference titled Blended Threats and JavaScript . I demonstrated how anybody could design an internet worm that targeted common network devices like routers and turn them into a powerful botnet that is able to monitor traffic across all types of networks. For the pr
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Secret colours of the Commodore 64
In 1991 I was fourteen years old. It would be fair to say I was obsessed with computers. I proudly owned a brown ‘breadbox’ Commodore 64 with an exotic upgrade - an Oceanic 5.25” disk drive:
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How GPT3 Works – Visualizations and Animations
Discussions: Hacker News (397 points, 97 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (247 points, 27 comments) Translations: German, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Russian, Turkish The tech world is abuzz with GPT3 hype. Massive language models (like GPT3) are starting to surprise us with their abilities. While not yet…
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How Do Routers Work, Really?
An accessible overview of how exactly a router works, with code examples.
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The Joy of Small Projects
When was the last time you completed a project? When was the last time you started a project? Have you every felt that you were trapped working on something that you don’t enjoy anymore? Size is something that I’m sure most developers with the drive to do side projects have felt. Recently I have been completing more…
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New alternatives to HSL and HSV that better match color perception
Okhsv and Okhsl Two new color spaces for color picking This post has an accompanying interactive comparison of color pickers. I would...
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How I helped build a profitable MVP over a weekend
A couple years ago, a good friend of mine, who was in charge of operations at a food delivery company, got laid off after a merger - they kept the guy from the other side.
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Cheap HDMI capture for Linux
Lately I have had the need to do real time video capture from HDMI devices as of late for a project, and while looking around the internet found that all of the capture cards that are aimed at gamers (windows / OSX support only) or full blown production capture (Very expensive, more inputs than I need). The other…